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BiographySipho Samuel Hashe
Sipho Samuel Charles Hashe was born in Middledrift, Ngcabasa Village (Eastern Cape) in 1934. He relocated to Port Elizabeth in the 1950s. During this period…
BiographySicelo Shiceka
… greatest influence was his grandfather, a warrior of the 1960 Pondo revolt against the Bantu Authorities Act , who …
BiographyJohn Jacques William Aitchison
John Jacques William Aitchison was born to Harold Aitchison and Phyllis Jacques, in Durban, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) on 2 June 1944. He was brought up by his…
BiographyDiana Mary Mitchell
… insight into oppositional politics in Rhodesia from the 1960’s – 1980 [xxviii] . In 1990, the University of Cape Town …
BiographyAugust Aime Balkema
Several dutch publishers have featured prominently in the South African book industry. They include JJ van Schaik, Gerrit Bakker, Cornells Struik and AA…
BiographyYusuf Joe Jacobs
… ( APDUSA ) as a mass movement in the NEUM in the early 1960’s resulted in increased organising activity. Te …
BiographyAdvocate Abram "Bram" Fischer
… Bar Council from 1943 to 1963, being chairman in 1961. In 1960 the ANC and Pan-Africanist Congress were banned. The …
Thoko Phillip Mamogobo
… Soweto. Mamagobo met his wife Kgathana Paulina Sebesho in 1960, the same year that the ANC was banned. The couple hired …
ArticleSouth African Coloured Peoples Organisation (SACPO)
… mass eviction of Coloured communities from these areas in 1960. SACPO engaged in another protest against the Separate … National Day of Protest called by the…
EventTranskei’s first President, Paramount Chief Botha Sigcau, dies
… years after Transkei became an independent homeland. In 1960, before Sigcau became the President of Transkei, … and others arrested. Botha Sigcau was blamed…
Event18,000 people have been detained since the declaration of the State of Emergency in March
… March. The State of Emergency was proclaimed on 30 March 1960, following the Sharpeville killings that left 69 unarmed people dead and … the proclamation, 11…
PlaceLady Grey, Eastern Cape
… conducted a service in Lady Grey once a month. In 1863 Rev. David Ross from Scotland accepted a call from the … of a Church, Parsonage, two Shops and a few…
EventArthur Elias Letele, medical doctor and prominent ANC leader who went into exile in Basutoland, dies
… when the charges against him were withdrawn. Following the Sharpeville Massacre and the First State of Emergency, Letele was …
ArchiveChildren and apartheid
… Tour on 22nd April to 17 May 1989. Organised by the Bishop Ambrose Reeves Trust, in co-operation with the SATIS …
ArticleThe Crackdown on the Black Consciousness Movement in 1973
… The period after the Sharpeville Massacre and the banning of the African National Congress … anti-apartheid gathering since the period before the Sharpeville…
ArticleSouth West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO): An Organisational Timeline
… The protest turns violent and South African police massacre a number of protesters. This event signals a turn … as passive resistance is traded in for an…
ArchiveWhat lost photos of Blue Notes say about South Africa’s jazz history by Lindelwa Dalamba , 14 October 2019
… height of apartheid, after the clampdown that followed the Sharpeville massacre of 1960. They capture a moment in the band’s history when they …
ArticleThe People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN)
… major liberation movement of Namibia. SWAPO was founded in 1960. It was founded with a mainly Marxist agenda … from urban areas to the country-side. The…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Source-based Questions
… just before the AntiPass Laws march campaign on 21 March 1960, to the Commissioner of the South African Police, Major … brutally shooting and beating…
ArticleThe Interim South African Constitution 1993
… On May 1992, CODESA II started. However, the massacre that took place in Boipatong in June 1992 resulted … Defence Force. This incident was later called…
PAC office bearers
… Mothopeng 1986 - 1990 Clarence Mlamli Makwetu 1990 - 1996 Rev Stanely Mogoba 1996 - 2003 Dr. Motsoko Pheko 2003 - 2006 …
Article1910-1924: African nationalism and working-class and popular protests
… to England, June 1914. Left to right: Thomas Mapike, Rev Walter Rubusana, Rev John Dube, Saul Msane, Sol Plaatjie. … unjust laws such as the Land Act…
ArticleAfrican nationalism and working-class & popular protests, 1910-1924
… to England, June 1914. Left to right: Thomas Mapike, Rev Walter Rubusana, Rev John Dube, Saul Msane, Sol Plaatjie. … graduate, who had been educated in the…
Biography of Caiphus Semenya
… unnecessary deaths. Forced removals and events such as the Sharpeville Massacre convinced Semenya that South Africa was not a place …
ArticleChief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli timeline 1800 - 1967
… for Foreign Mission arrive at Dingane's capital. Rev. Aldin Grout begins work at KwaNginani, but soon leaves … Africa and from leaving his home district for…
South Africa: Liberation and Reconciliation Role of International Solidarity, 8 April 2004
… apartheid. I recall that for many years after the Soweto massacre in 1976, students in many American universities used to observe the two weeks from the…
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
… Africa’s struggle against Apartheid. The aftermath of the Sharpeville Massacre and the declaration of the subsequent State of Emergency in March 1960…
BiographyMoses Mbheki Mncane Mabhida
… of the Natal ANC. A week after the declaration of the 1960 state of emergency, Mabhida was sent abroad by SACTU to …
ArchiveRemembering Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for music of the day by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 23 January 2018
… African jazz in South Africa. “Jazz Epistle: Verse One” (1960) featured band compositions marked by challenging … patrons at home and abroad. Pushed by the…
Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for the music of today, not yesterday, 29 October 2017
… African jazz in South Africa. “Jazz Epistle: Verse One” (1960) featured band compositions marked by challenging … patrons at home and abroad. Pushed by the…